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S. M. TEPPER SAW Filed Feb. 2, 1926 5 Sheets-Sheet 3 WITNESS Patented Oct. 4, y1927.

UNITED 1,544,619 ATENE or-Fica SIDNEY WARION TEPPER, F CLEVELAND, OHIO.

SAW.

Application mea February 2, 192e. serial No. 85,549.

My present invention has reference to what I will term a combination handsaw.

My object is toy providein a single implement, a saw, a square, a gage, a rule, and a bevel, so that the separate use of all of these tools will be at the command of the -owner of the device, so that the inconvenience of carrying a' plurality of tools and the loss,

Fig. 2 is an enlarged elevation showing the,`

gage set to scribe marks on timbers or the like at 60 'degree angles,

Fig. 3 is a view showing the manner in which the tool is employed for scribing rightangular lines on timbers or the like,

Fig. 4 is a similar view showing the manner in which the device is employed for scribing a board'or timber to be cut into. desired lengths,

Fig. 5 is a similar view showing the manner in whichthe tool is employed as a measuring device,

Fig. 6 is a sectional view on the line 6-6 of Fig. 5,

Fig. 7 is a side elevation of one of the elements constituting the combined square and bevel attachment,

Fig. 8 is a top plan view thereof,

Fig. 9 is a similar view of the companion member,

Fig. 10 is a perspective view of the setscrew, and

Fig. 11 is a similar view of the elements for pivotally associating the arms constituting the combined square and bevel attachment. l y

Essentially my improvement includes a saw blade 1 having attached to one end thereof the usual handle 2. The bifurcated portion of the handle, at the inner edge thereof, is provided with the usual beveled lips 3 which afford a larger bearing surface for the portion of the handle that engages the saw blade. This is ofwthe' usual construction.

For distinction, the ends of the handlethat merge into the lips are indicated by the numerals 4 and the nontoothed edge of the blade 1, indicated for distinction by the numeral 5, is arranged ata vright angle with respect to the said handle end 4. Also the said edge 5 of the blade, from the ends 4 of the handle, has "inscribed thereon a-rule, divided into inches and intofractions of `inches indicated bythe numeral 6. Inward of the rulel scale, but in a line with the graduations thereof, the blade 1 is provided with substantially rectangular openings 7. All of these openings are arranged in parallelism, and the outer walls provided by the openings, that is, the walls nearest the edge 5, are cut at opposite angles to the center thereof and are thus substantially V-shaped as indicated by the numeral 8.

The saw blade, at the beginning of the rule scale, and at a point adjacent to the juncture of the handle'with the said blade, is provided with. a transverse rounded opening 9.

Scribed on the saw blade from the axial center of the opening 9 there are on either or both faces other round openings 10 and i degree marks llbetween the said openings. The degree marks provide the saw blade with what may be termed a rotractor scale.

In carrying out my invention I provided a combined square and bevel attachment that constitutes )two members in the nature of :dat bars or arms 12 and 13, respectively. Bothl of these arms have their inner edges concaved longitudinally, as at 14, to receive therein the lips 3, when the members are pivotally associated with the saw blade which will now be described.

The member 12 has its inner falce provided with a round opening in the nature of a f Socket 14 that is adapted to receive therein a boss 15 on rthe inner face and at theend of the member 13. The member 12 has a square opening 16 which opens into the vopening 14', the outer face of the said member 12 having a round depression 17 that surrounds the said opening 16, while the boss 15 is formed with a squared opening 18 which registers with the opening d4 in the ico member 12. The 'outerface of the member '13 is formed with an annular depression 19 that surrounds the said squared opening 18. `Passed through the squared openings there is the squared shank 20 of a bolt member, thei head 21 of the said bolt member being received in the depression 17. The threaded endy 21 of the bolt member is reduced and is` received in a threaded socket of'a rounded nut 22 whichis received in the depression 19. The nut 22 has its outer face. kerfed, as at 23, whereby the said nut may be turned by a screw-driver or the like.

As most clearly disclosed in Fig. 6 lof the drawings, the rounded boss 15 passes through the opening 9 in the saw blade 1, and 1n this manner both of the arms are effectively secured to ether and pivotally supported on the saw lade. The arm 13, adjacent to the non-pivoted end thereof, has a rounded opening 27 therethrough, and the member 12 has a threaded opening 28 which registers with the said rounded opening. There is passed through the non-threaded opening the nonthreaded shank 24 of a screw-bolt 25, the threaded shank 26 of the .said bolt being screwed through the threaded opening in the member 12. This, however, does not oceur until the openings 27 and 28 in the mem-v bers 13 and 12 are brought to register with each other and arranged opposite any of the arcuately arranged openings 1() in the saw blade.- When the bolt 25 locks the arms on the saw blade, against the shoulders 4 of the handle 2, the outerv edges of the arms providing the combined square and bevel are disposed and locked rightangularly with respect to the straight edge 5 of the saw blade and when so arranged the arms and the saw blade provide a square. When the saw blade is arranged against one face of a timber, as illustrated by Fig. 5, and one of the arms is brought against the edge of the timber, the rule scale on the saw blade permits of the accurate measurements being made on said timber. The saw is held in the same position when the outer straight edge of the blade thereof is employed for scribing purposes, as illustrated in Fig. 3. Whenin this position the saw may be employed, as a means-for scribing mark lines.

on a timber, as disclosed by Fig. 4. In this instance, the carpenters pencil is inserted through the desiredopening 7 in the blade and the sharpened. edge thereof isv brought into the V-shaped notch at the end of the said opening. The saw is simply drawn along the-edge of the timber. Whenemf ployed as a bevel, the arms'are swung on the lsaw blade .to arrange the same in the. position illustrated jin Fig. 2, when a cut or a scribe mark of degrees is required. Of coiirse, by bringing the blades opposite any other of the degree marks 11 and passing the binding element through the. open- A ings in the arms andthrough the open g 10 previously stated, embodies in a single article a great number of tools whichl are necessary in the work of carpenters or joiners, and it is believed that its many advantages will be readily understood and appreciated by those skilled in the art to which this invention reg lates when the foregoing description has been carefully read in connection wlth the accompanying drawings.

Having described the invention, I claim A tool of the class described, including a saw blade and a handle therefor, said handle having its inner edge arranged rightangularly withl respect to the .non-toothed edge of the 'saw blade, said blade atits said nontoothed edge being inscribed with inch marks and fractions thereof, and being provided in a line with such marks with transverse openings, a combined square and. bevel attachment pivotally secured ladjacent to the straight edgel of the saw blade 'at the juncture of the handle therewith, said attachment comprising two flat arms, one of which having' a boss that passes through' the saw blade and that is re'celved in the second arm, both of said arms at the pivotal connection thereof having' square openings f therethrough, each of which being surrounded by a recess,

'a headed bolt having la squaredfshank passture. y

`SIDNEY MARION TEPPER.

whereof I aiiix my signa-l 

